BOOK REVIEW 18a 



preciation of the viewpoint on the part of instructors. "We need an 

 evolution rather than a revolution in our biologocal pedagogy." 



A novel introductory exercise in the laboratory, which the author 

 has tried out with success, is the study of a series of objects, such as 

 sand, pebbles, crystals, shells, plants, and animals, thus developing thn 

 ideas of form, composition, comparison and classification, discrimina- 

 tion between essential and non-essential qualities, distinction between 

 inorganic and organic, etc. In this type lesson, introductory to scien- 

 tific method, the author emphasizes the value of pedagogically "carrying^ 

 through" the whole thought process that the pupil may gain the com- 

 plete mental reaction to which he is entitled, rather than stopping 

 short with mere observation and description as is so often the case 

 with laboratory exercises. 



The treatment throughout is pleasing and dignified, perhaps rather 

 too heavy for the first year of high school. One who holds to old 

 methods will take kindly to the insistance upon the pedagogical view; 

 and while the "human-interest" advocate may regret the prominence 

 of old-line technical matter, he will welcome the text for its appre- 

 ciation of newer ideals and values in zoology teaching. 



When one shall be so bold as to frame upon a nature-study basis, 

 a basis of first-hand study of environmental materials from the view- 

 point of human interest — a text in high school zoology, we trust that 

 the task may fall to one so sanely turns the method of science 

 back upon his problems of teaching as does Professor Galloway. 



F. L. C. 



"Children of the Land*', the story of the Macdonald Movement 

 in Canada, is the topic of a well-written illustrated article by H. F. 

 Sherwood in the Outlook for April 23, 1910. It gives a graphic account 

 of the rural uplift throughout the Dominion due to the beneficient giving 

 of Sir William Macdonald, prompted and in the main directed by Dr. 

 James Wilson Robertson, formerly Commissioner of Agriculture and 

 Dairying for the Dominion and later President of Macdonald College at 

 Ste. Anne de Bellevue. 



Human Body and Health: Elementary. By Alvin Davidson, 

 Professor of Biology in Lafayette College. American Book Company,. 

 1910. Pp. 191. 



This worthy book fulfills its title by emphasizing hygiene rather 

 than physiology and placing health above a knowledge of anatomical 

 details. Intended for use in the elementary school, it endeavors to pre- 

 sent important truths "not by dogmatic assertion but by citing facts 

 appealing to the child mind in such a way as to make a lasting im- 

 pression". The illustrations are good and the material is in part from 

 original sources. The book is a distinct improvement upon the usual 

 type of text in "Physiology". F. L. C. 



Field Zoolo^. By Lottie E. Crary, Assistant Professor of Biology 

 and Geology, Kansas State Normal College, Emporia. Blakiston's Son- 

 & Co., Philadelphia, 1910. Pp. 364. $1.25. 



Frankly, we are greatly disappointed in this book, supposedly a com- 

 panion volume to Galloway's Elementary Zoology (by the same pub- 

 lishers), but falling far short of that text from every point of view. The 

 illustrations are not new, the subject matter is weak, and the book 

 does not justify its title. F. L. C. 



